MFA Cup of Honour 1

The first season of the MFA Cup of Honour will start in August 2016.

Participation
Countries can send clubs to the MFA Cup of Honour on invitation by the MFA. The amount of clubs a country can send depends on the size and quality of the national football competitions in the country. Size and quality decide whether a country can send the top 1, 2 or 3 countries of their national competition. If a country has a national cup tournament, it may also send the winner of this cup (or the runner-up if the winner already qualified through the national league). The MHA invited 11 countries, including 2 of the host countries, to send clubs to participate in this first edition of the Cup of Honour. Third host country Oxenryd was not invited to send football clubs because of the lack of a national competition.

Organisation
While the MHA is the official owner of the rights of organising the Cup of Honour, the biggest part of the organisation is usually done by the hosting countries. While the MHA is still included in the organisation, they were in this edition aided by the Kaohportian broadcaster KNRT Sports, Tybaltevan broadcaster TYRBC and Oxenri broadcaster OSTV.

Rules
These are the official rules as published by the MFA

Overall information

 * 32 clubs from 11 countries across the Maia world will compete for the Cup.
 * The first stage is the group stage. Here, the 32 clubs are divided into 8 groups of 4.
 * 16 clubs advance to the knock-out stage where teams will be gradually eliminated.
 * The winner of the final will receive the Cup of Honour and a cash price. The home country of the club wins the right to be (one of the) host country (countries).
 * All semi-finalists (the final 4 countries) win a ticket granting them a place in the next Cup of Honour.
 * The first edition of the Cup will be hosted in 16 stadiums across Oxenryd, Tybalteva and Kaohportia.

Group Stage

 * 32 teams will be randomly divided into 8 groups of 4.
 * Every club will face each opponent once, totalling 3 matches for every club.
 * Winning a match earns 3 points, drawing earns 1 point, losing earns nothing.
 * The ranking of the countries in a group is based on the amount of points scored. In case of ties, the result between the tied countries, the goal difference and the amount of red/yellow cards scored will be (in that order) used to break the tie.
 * The top 2 in every group advances to the knock-out stage.

Knock-out Stage

 * A random draw is used to decide which countries face each other in the round of 16.
 * All matches consist of a Home- and a Return-match. Scores from both will be added up for the final score. The club winning advances. In case of a tie in the total score, penalty kicks will be taken to determine who wins.

Participation

 * A country may send in the top one, two or three countries from their national league depending on the strength and size of the league. MHA will decide how many clubs may be selected.
 * If a country also has a national cup, the winner of this cup may be sent as an additional participant. If the winner was already selected through the national league, the runner-up may compete in the Cup of Honour. If both winner and runner-up were selected through the national league, no additional participant may compete for the country.

Preliminary round
The schedule was announced on 13 August 2016.

All times are local (UTC+2).

Round of 16

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